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| Premium Content  Pratt & Whitney is reverting to a previous configuration of its PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) engine’s high pressure compressor (HPC) aft hub knife-edge seal to get its production line moving again and fix in-service engines affected by issues with the modified design.
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| Premium Content  Air France estimates it would operate 75% of flights despite a strike planned for Feb. 22, with the turnout of strikers estimated at 28%.
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| Kurt Hofmann Premium Content  Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said the airspace blockade on Qatari territory initiated June 5, 2017, by neighboring nations has negatively affected the performance of the airline.
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| The October 2017 collision between a small unmanned aircraft and a Beech King Air operating a commercial charter flight into Quebec City highlights the risks unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) pose to Canadian airspace users, and pending rules may not be enough to mitigate that risk to an acceptable level, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has warned.
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| Mark Nensel  Grupo Aeromexico reported a MXP18 million ($914,000) net profit for 2017, down 98.4% from MXP1.1 billion net income in 2016.
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Commentary | Karen Walker The Trump administration’s fiscal 2019 budget is a disappointment and a huge missed opportunity for the country’s commercial air transport industry and for Americans.
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| Karen Walker  One curious outcome of the years-long dispute over the US-Qatar Open Skies agreement was that all sides described the result as a win.
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